I’m sure the EU won’t take a dim view of this at all.
“Senator, we’d like racketeering laws repealed. They’re making running our protection rackets much harder. How are we supposed to innovate for our customers if you keep making new kinds of threats illegal?”
I'm sure there's some political push or at least sign of support behind it happening now. "Our big beautiful tech companies blah blah blah..."
It makes it easier to not offer functionality in Europe. Because to offer the functionality in Europe you have to do the extra work of making sure any competitor who could go crying to the euro officials can plausibly inject a competing thing with equal integration.
They pride themselves as being privacy and security minded when releasing new products.
They already have mechanisms to trust some accessories and apps ("my watch" vs. "your watch"). Just offer the same to devices not made by them.
If the user then decides to install the (probably illegal) "Meta Spy Master 9000 App" then so be it.
They are adults after all.
The DMA very explicitly disagrees with the notion of "Apple knows best" and until the tech giants come to terms with that, their comments on the laws cannot be trusted.
I would love to see them cooperate because then, over time, their considerable technical knowledge could be used to work out the details.
One should be able to "mix and match ecosystems" so to speak and expect that any accessory will work to the same level, with the same features as a first party one.
Why shouldn't third parties be able to integrate using AWDL to enable bluetooth earbud device switching and AirDrop across operating systems, for example. Why shouldn't a WearOS watch be able to have the same notification handling and messaging capabilities as an Apple Watch on iOS? Let my windows PC have a shared clipboard with my iPhone just like my mac can, etc.
All they need to do is implement it in a way that still allows competitors to do their thing. Wha
Maybe the EU should actually foster an environment where tech companies can grow and compete.
Why not regulate Spotify as part of the DMA then?
And when things go wrong or you want to change something, I would much rather deal with the hotel directly than deal with a third party.
I have been to London and found plenty of choices for Hilton. Looking at our bucket list for the next few years (we started traveling a lot post 2021), I’m looking at Hyatts in Spain (Barcelona, Seville and Madrid), in Australia and Japan.
It’s not until I get to countries in Africa where I can’t find many chains. In big cities in Europe, Australia and Asia, the American chains are ubiquitous.
“But it would kill streaming music!“
If your business model doesn’t work without screwing over the producer of goods, perhaps your business model just doesn’t work.
And it's not like the average artist made a ton of money before Spotify, there has long been a high supply of artists, which in theory keeps their pay down. (higher supply -> lower price)
And yes yes it isnt perfect. But the crying and weeping of the big American tech companies show that it is working as intended.
No, you are. I suggested they're not exactly a small player, considering that DMA is trying to also appeal to local entrepreneurs/startups - and not stand for consumers too.
Personally i use any channel that suits my need and budget, including Booking, Google, etc, but DMA is regulating for 450million people so, I can see their side of argument.
> Why not regulate Spotify
what about them? not a Spotify user - so what can they do that say YT Music, Amazon Music, Apple etc aren't allowed?
The problem with the EU in general is that every time they try to pass a law they run into the pesky problem of free will and users preferring the offerings of the BigTech companies not realizing that all of the laws they pass further entrench the big companies because they have the resources to both desk with the regulations and they can create and nurture their business in more favorable countries like the US and then use those resources to expand.
The reason that the tech environment is so anemic in the EU is not because there aren’t enough laws and regulation.